Example sentences of "[adv] be [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since their lavish £200,000 wedding 14 months ago , they have rarely been out of the headlines — but for all the wrong reasons . |
| 2 | After so many attempts , that day could not have been more rewarding , and I 've since been back at its summit twice . |
| 3 | We are also accountable through the box office in terms that your public will not come and see events and pay their money if the events that you 're putting on are not of sufficiently high standard , so the accountability runs in three our four different channels and each of them are quite potent and quite immediate in terms of their impact that they can have on the Association . |
| 4 | The new Landrat of Gunzenhausen , a former Franconian bastion of National Socialism , wrote in his first monthly report after the end of the Third Reich , in August 1945 : ‘ Although the war has only been over for a few months , National Socialism is hardly ever spoken about , and when at all , only in a negative sense . |
| 5 | Another argument is that advertising has only been around for a while , so how can that be the reason for all our hang-ups , but that 's not true either . |
| 6 | How do you know this is love , your prose side whispers like a sceptical lawyer , it 's only been around for a few weeks , a few months . |
| 7 | It may seem as if it has been with us forever , but the ubiquitous American Express chargecard has , in fact , only been around for 35 years . |
| 8 | The Cobra had only been around since 1962 , but the Ace , on which it was based , dated back to 1953 , when it had been launched at Earls Court . |
| 9 | Oh do n't it 's only been on for about er , the last half an hour it 's not it 's a cross a crucifix is got bigger on it . |
| 10 | featured the last er three years some of the other companies have only been here since last year and the year before so I mean we 're a national tour operator |
| 11 | He 's only been up since quarter to three |
| 12 | But he had only been away for three days . |
| 13 | In fact he had only been away from the town for one period of six years when he was at university in Aberdeen . |
| 14 | I tried to recall friends ' telephone numbers as an exercise , but astonishingly , though I had only been away from home for fifteen days , could only manage my own , my sister 's and my mother-in-law 's . |
| 15 | Emily had only been away from home twice , and each time she had been very unhappy . |
| 16 | I mean there were only been about at the most ten who were suffering from burns . |
| 17 | ‘ But I 've only been down to the banister to pick up my coat . ’ |
| 18 | Having worked for a number of years now in community health services , previously erm in Yorkshire , in fact I 've only been down in Oxford about four or five months , I 've learnt how important it is in fact to make good working contacts with members and officers of other organizations , and particularly of local authority organizations . |
| 19 | A clergyman who was in Manchester Cathedral when the second device went off said : ‘ I had only been there for a matter of seconds when I heard an almighty crump . |
| 20 | He 's a new environment officer , he 's only been there for a month or something . |
| 21 | Perhaps not as bad as Buff , because the animal had only been there for a second or two and I had told them it was a robot . |
| 22 | I 've only been back on the case , in cosmic terms , about two-and-a-half minutes . |
| 23 | He had only been back for a few hours when company orders were posted showing that Colonel Hamilton wished to see Lance-Corporal Trumper at eleven hundred hours the following morning . |
| 24 | This team have only been together for less than a year and it is getting better all the time . |
| 25 | He had only been out with on other girl in his life . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't dislike it , but I 've only been out with Charles about three times … ’ |
| 27 | Auntie Mavis has only been out for five to ten minutes twice cos of her knee . |
| 28 | It broke Perdita 's heart that Ricky , who 'd only been out of top-class polo for three years , was totally ignored . |
| 29 | I 've only been out of prison three months . |
| 30 | ‘ Lenny 's only been out of the jug five , maybe six weeks , ’ said Lloyd . |